Green Monster cocktail

Price: $11

Ingredients: Bombay gin, Maraschino liqueur, lime juice, muddled cucumber, basil

Taste: Refreshing. “The Maraschino liqueur softens up whatever flavor you put it with, ” explains Roberto
Porsia, Serafina’s general manager. “So even if you’re not a big gin drinker, you’re going to like it.”

Pair it with: Tartare di Sofia, served atop cucumber slices ($16).

Context: Serafina’s first New England outpost serves up Italian staples—like Bellinis and Negronis—as well as some novelties not found on the New York-based restaurant group’s other menus, including a spicy cucumber drink with vodka and jalapeno and a Pimm’s cocktail featuring Domain de Canton and ginger beer. “My drink program is completely not reinventing the wheel. I’m old-school Italian. I grew up in Italy; I have an Italian restaurant, ” says Porsia, who also spent time at the Ames Hotel, Rialto and, most recently, Bastille Kitchen. “I like simple things: beer, wine and basic cocktails. There’s no reason to wait 10 minutes for a cocktail and use ingredients you can’t even pronounce, and shake and burn and light things on fire. Our cocktails are very simple; they’re friendly, approachable.”

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